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A fire broke out at a city fire station in Compton and destroyed $1.1 million in radio and communications equipment that the city bought last year in an ultimately aborted attempt to bring back its municipal police department.

No Different from east coast firehouses that have weight rooms handball courts and so on an so forth.And more than likely paid for the members and not the city.Just a thought to think about before we can say why or why they did not have the cash to finish the system.

I was an EMT driving an ambulance during the LA Riots and I crashed into a laser printer that someone tried to carry home after looting but I guess abandoned, as it looked large and heavy. My only Compton memory.

It's called exercise and staying in top physical condition, so if they have to lug you out of a burning building at 3 AM some day, they can do it.

Yeah, I get that... I'm not complaining. It's just weird to have racquetball of all things, that's all. I'm assuming maybe racquetball was hip at the time, so they went with that. Plenty of other ways to exercise that take less space than that though. The guys I talked to when I toured numerous stations said they never use them though.

A former Compton firefighter pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of arson, grand theft and embezzlement in connection with a fire that destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of communications equipment in December 2011.

Marcel Melanson, 37, a one-time Compton deputy chief who worked for the department for 15 years and once starred in a reality television series, is accused of stealing radios that were stored at the fire station and selling them on the Internet, then setting a fire to cover up the theft.